{"id":232,"date":"2008-03-11T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-birthday-cards\/party-at-the-garden%e2%80%a6don%e2%80%99t-forget-the-birthday-cards\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:25:36","slug":"party-at-the-gardendont-forget-the-birthday-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-birthday-cards\/party-at-the-gardendont-forget-the-birthday-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Party at the Garden\u2026Don\u2019t forget the Birthday Cards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/birthday-cards.htm\">birthday cards<\/a><\/strong> do you think celebrities get on their birthdays? It\u2019s not just family and friends who send them. There are business contacts. There are members of the press. There are thousands of fans. You may be asking yourself why a gal like me would be sitting here, pondering such a question, but it didn\u2019t come up out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p>As I sat in Madison Square Garden on Valentine\u2019s Day, enjoying the sights and sounds of Matchbox Twenty, the band pointed out that it was also lead singer Rob Thomas\u2019s birthday. Rob\u2019s wife, Marisol, brought a cake out on stage, and the words \u201cHappy Birthday!\u201d shone on the screen behind them as we were led in a rousing version of the song. Rob good-naturedly pointed out how wonderful it was to be sung to by 15,000 people singing in 15,000 keys.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to my friend and said \u201cJust how many birthdays are we going to spend at the Garden?\u201d We had been there almost a year prior for Elton John\u2019s sixtieth birthday. It was a different cake and a different crowd, but just as much confetti shot through the air and onto the spectators lucky enough to have floor seats.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the regular, run-of-the-mill confetti used in celebrations such as concerts and ticker-tape parades, we could recycle old birthday cards! Shred them up, spray them out, and as an added bonus, the confetti would be sparkly and shimmery thanks to the foils used in the original designs. As you can probably tell, working at a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/birthday-cards\/business-birthday-cards.htm\">business birthday cards<\/a><\/strong> greeting card company makes you look at everyday things from a slightly different perspective. But really, what\u2019s wrong with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How do you get birthday cards and well wishes from thousands of people? 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